 | My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.28 To call this racist is to miss the point - perhaps the most honest book you'll ever read
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Buy used from: £4.99 Gives journalism a better name than it usually deserves
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 | Congo Journey by Redmond O'Hanlon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Hardly the comedy it's sometimes billed as, but very searching
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 | The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (Penguin Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £4.78 A mesmerising collection of accounts of Haile Selassie's last days
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 | In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.85 No more laughs here than you'd expect
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 | Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.14 / Used from: £3.93 Nor here
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 | A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £3.08 Sombre subject matter again, but a bit more human kindness than the previous pair, and also Mantel's most beautiful prose
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 | Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A lighter touch than all the above, but still keeps you thinking about Africa and more besides
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 | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Buy used from: £7.42 Like many while exploits in Africa, the 'opening up' of the Congo had inexplicably drifted out of common knowledge before this book
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 | Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Violence and Ethnicity Bk.2 by Bruce Berman
Buy new: £13.73 / Used from: £13.74 This book and its companion are heavy going, but fascinating and to be preferred to the distorted sensationalism of 'Britain's Gulag'
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